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@Noah: I'm not sure you remember who Porton is, but I think you should find out...
May I respectfully suggest that you remove mathematics21.org/abel-prize.html from your website before participating at MathOverflow, rather as you might be expected to wear pants when coming to a seminar?
I'm not trying to contradict any claims that you make there, just suggesting that you may find the community more receptive if you didn't score on Baez's index.
@Scott: I think this is up to the user's own wishes; he isn't being defamatory. My personal opinion, like yours, is that having that link will prejudice people against him, but he should be free to have it there, no?
I agree that Victor Porton would probably get a better reception here (and elsewhere) if he removed his plea for the Abel Prize from his webpage. However, I also strongly feel that such a plea is not offensive or defamatory, and it is certainly not an excuse for public ridicule.
In particular to Harry Gindi: please stop calling people's attention to this website. It seems that your goal is to make sure that others share your low opinion, which is simply mean. Naivete is not a crime. Please pick on someone your own size (or larger).
I think it's offensive to the mathematical community to suggest that such work measures up to the work of, for example, Tate, who won the prize last year.
@Pete: If Victor Porton removes the page, I have no intention of mirroring his website to continue showing people. If, as Victor believes, it is nothing to embarrassed about, then I am doing him no disservice be letting people know about it.
I don't understand why we have to pretend that he's not a crackpot. Maybe I'm being too blunt, but I think it's patronizing to believe that Victor can't handle the truth.
Harry: without wishing to pile on, I don't think it is the role of MO to be acting as some kind of guardian of Proper Maths or Crankbusters, even if such things were to have a purpose in the wider maths community. I genuinely think that as you encounter more mathematicians and their work over the years, you may find your attitudes shift as to how to behave.
Besides, Victor Porton has displayed much more polite behaviour than some people we've recently had frequenting the site, and to my knowledge has not been claiming that Big Names Are Wrong or similar.
@Noah: I don't understand the comparison you're trying to make here. I'm not a crackpot if that's what you're implying.
Edit: It seems that Porton has removed the page from his website. This was a good choice.
Edit 2: Nope, it's back up.
@Noah:
Granted, one of the biggest reasons I'm trying at times is that I'm intolerant of other people's ideosyncrasies...
Anyway, I'm not sure if any of you have read past the beginning of the page, but there's definitely a lot of comedic gold.
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